The tech sharing the company will be offering is called the Nocturnal Initiative and aims to offer developers around the world access to useful bits of code and presentations covering a range of subjects relating to the development of games. Speaking of the initiative, Mike Action, engineer director at Insomniac, said:

The Nocturnal initiative is designed to encourage greater communication and information sharing among the development community because it will ultimately enable us all to create better games at a lower development cost …

We see Nocturnal as a long-term project that may be valuable for those who want to develop similar technology as us, but without the same effort we needed … We also believe Nocturnal may be valuable for our fans to gain insight to our production processes, while communicating our ideas with a larger group gives us the opportunity to generate feedback on our approaches and ultimately improve them.

Insomniac has the presentations part of the offering already in place through the R&D section of its website, which has been active since August last year. That is set to continue alongside a new Nocturnal Wiki page that will offer access to the code the company releases for public consumption.

Insomniac is probably best known for its Ratchet & Clank series of games and the first 3 Spyro titles, but has also diversified recently on PlayStation 3 with the release of Resistance: Fall of Man. The independent studio is currently hard at work on Resistance 2.